Educating Future Academic Librarians: An Analysis of Courses in Academic Librarianship

摘要

This study reports the results of an analysis of the syllabi of courses in academic librarianship solicited from faculty or located on the Web. It examines who teaches the courses and what subjects are covered, as well as required textbooks, assignments, and pedagogical methods. The list of subjects covered is compared to a list generated by an ACRLog survey asking readers which subjects they felt should be included in a course on academic librarianship as well as to skills and proficiencies identified in the recent library literature as desirable for academic librarians. Results indicate that, although the list of subjects most frequently covered matches the ACRLog list fairly closely, a single course probably cannot be expected to develop all desired proficiencies.